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  1. mikelink45
    He needs either a new team or a coach that can really help him unlock his potential - hire Rowson.
  2. mikelink45
    I have no problem with your framing your argument the way you have. Whether it's correct or not I will have to wait for a electronic determination
  3. mikelink45
    The biggest benefactors will be us old timers who believed a strike and ball were defined by the rules not by the quick movement of the catchers glove.
  4. mikelink45
    No one here to impact the Twins if they are looking to improve.
  5. mikelink45
    Give me Rowson - fresh start with someone who has been with a variety of teams and knows hitting which is our current weakest attribute.
  6. mikelink45
    I have been bothered by this posting all day long and the more I think about it the more I say no don't trade Ryan, don't trade Lopez, and try to give us some hope. Seth if I have any belief in your reporting I see Walker and Rodriguez and Gonzalez joining with Keaschall and providing us with the basis for a team that might make it into the playoffs. But subtracting our best pitchers is giving up.
  7. mikelink45
    I do not know the percentage of hits and misses over a ten year span and I do not know how it compares to the other teams. We have a poor overall success rate and we have made choices to keep players who were less productive than those we let go. But the reality of MLB is that Free agents, drafts, and trades are all essential tools and to judge what we got from one class needs to ask the question, what did we get in return for those we let go and who did we get outside the draft board. Based on results my expectations are low.
  8. mikelink45
    Your choice is as good as your spelling
  9. mikelink45
    second and third look weak, Catcher and 1B do not give a lot of hope and Winokur is limited. Not the best all-star minor league team except OF and DH look good as well as SS.
  10. mikelink45
    The ranking is close - I think Guzman and his six year 7.6 WAR needs to be on the list. I would take him and his speed and range over Polanco as a SS (I am not thinking about other positions for Polanco. I would put Cardenas 3 years and 11.1 WAR above all of them. Correa was good, but not what was advertised. I think Cardenas is number 1, Smalley 2, Gagne 3 Correa 4 (although on the short span Vesalles was better than him) and Guzman above Polanco. Meares and Barlett are honorable mentions.
  11. mikelink45
    Whatever they do - it will be an accidental good signing created by other circumstances or we will wait and wonder why they can't do the obvious. I wait and see.
  12. mikelink45
    this is the Angels - if there is any team that can make the Twins brass look like Einstein it is this Angel mess!
  13. mikelink45
    And thank you notes from France and Varland are in the mail.
  14. mikelink45
    A few years ago we said that about stolen bases. The Dodgers just completed their last series with Snell going 8 in game one, Yamamato going 9 in game 2, Glasnow 5.2 in game three and Ohtani going 6 in game 4. Baseball is a copycat league and the Dodgers might have triggered a new trend.
  15. mikelink45
    Trade him to the A's where he can pair with Rooker! Or trade him to Toronto where he can reunite with Varland. I think he still has real value. If we have put up with Lee and Lewis and their production we owe Wallner another year.
  16. mikelink45
    Tough way to create an OBP. Might try using the bat instead of the body. Winokur's errors is consistent with what I witnessed in Iowa. I do not see him at SS.
  17. mikelink45
    That is easy to say, but all 30 teams are building BPs and the track record says it is not that easy except in theory. What we need is what the Dodgers did last series - let the SP go deep and even a full nine once in a while.
  18. mikelink45
    Save and post - works for Julien, Miranda, Lewis, Wallner, Larnach. Perhaps the essay we need is an evaluation of all the supposedly baseball savvy coaches and what they are supposed to be doing. I noted that Popkins seemed to find himself after leaving the Twins way. Please start the quality control coach and help us figure out why our prospects fizzle in the majors.
  19. mikelink45
    I don't speculate on trades - we have so many dream scenarios. I only look at what we know and right now this is not a championship up the middle combination. Let's hope Buxton retains his speed and quality so one of the positions is above average. In the minors I see Marek and Culpepper at least a year away. Beyond that not much and if you are still looking at Julien we are in big trouble and Martin is not going to raise the bar either.
  20. mikelink45
    I will be so happy if the new electronic strike zone gets rid of the ridiculous "framing". It is just legalized cheating. Let's move forward. The biggest question for me is his arm strength, speed, and accuracy as we are seeing a rebound in SB. Otherwise are we looking at a duo of Gaspar and Paredes? Yikes.
  21. mikelink45
    Interesting list - but where are the DFAs? That is where the Twins shop.
  22. mikelink45
    Regression in MLB for our prospects has been a trend in Rocco's years. Whether him or the coaches it is a big failure. Now we hope on Walker, Rodriguez, Gonzales but what are the expectations for them to continue to progress. Wallner and Lewis and Julien and Miranda all had a decent start then the floor gave way. At least we can rely on the bullpen (sarcasm in case you wonder).
  23. mikelink45
    Watching him play in Cedar Rapids I thought he looked awkward in the field. I do not see SS in the future. Not sure that I see him as a MLB starter, but nice to have his talent in the system and maybe he develops into something special.
  24. mikelink45
    No opinion. No one is a good manager until they prove it. And even the best of managers - think Casey Stengel can win with a great team (Yankees) but not with a bad team (Mets). And bad managers (Fred Haney of Milwaukee Braves) win when the team is just so good they don't need to be managed. Tom Kelly is considered the superstar of Twins Managers had a career .478 winning record. And 5 winning years of first of second place in 16 years. Yet we think of him as the genius manager despite blowing it with Dave Ortiz and a few others. What makes a great manager? It really comes down to a smart baseball man who knows how to relate to his players without losing authority. Although my caveat now is that we have so many specialty coaches the manager is also the manager of a coaching team. How do we measure that ability of the coaches themselves?
  25. mikelink45
    I keep him. Two years while we try to develop another good pitcher is worth a lot.
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